Overview

• The roughly 13-meter sportboat has sat on a shoal since August 10 after the skippers misjudged conditions at higher water levels.
• DLRG rescuers brought the two men ashore hours after the grounding, and no injuries were reported.
• Police say the vessel was initially held by its own anchor and later stabilized with a second, and it lies away from the main shipping lane.
• The owners did not commission earlier salvage because they could not meet the required costs, delaying recovery efforts.
• Falling water levels made the stranded yacht more visible to ferries and onlookers, water levels near Rüdesheim are forecast to rise, and officials have not decided how to divide recovery costs.